Wedding pics

Here's the deal...I had 30 mins to take some wedding pics for a friend right before their reception, just of them and their daughter. By the time they were ready it was dark and all i had for a backdrop was a floor to ceiling curtain in the main entry way of the venue. (Blue gathered curtains). Once I got them into post production, I really didn't like the dated look the curtains gave, so I edited all 50 photos and changed the background to black. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Unfortunatley I don't have the 'before' to go along with this 'after' so please imagine! Any comments are appreciated, it has been a challenge learning this flash!

Digital Rebel, 50mm, 580ex Flash and alot of bouncing.

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a couple more

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and last one

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good job on switching the background...only apparent if you look way too closely...id say its more than acceptable. To me, the color looks a little off on the first two, but it could just be my moniter. Nice job.

Very nice job indeed! However, I think that the groom's coat is blended with the background. Perhaps a lighter background. Can you share us how you switched the background color? I cannot tell if you didn't mention. I just had a new thread asking PS expert to change the background color in PS. I tried myself, but didn't get a good result.

Thanks for the comments. To change the background, I used the magnetic laso, the select them, then used the regular laso to get any areas missed and tighten up the selection, then I feathered the selection by only 5 pixels and inverted my selection so only the background was selected and filled it with black, I then took the burning tool and on about a 50% opacity burned the edges a little, to help blend it. That's about it I think.

Shannon

I think you did a very nice job. I like the black background too.

Fantastic job. I can't imagine how long that took.

Her hair looks green in the first one...what's that about? Also, I think the hubby's tux blensds in with the black a bit too much. Very nice shots, though.

Nice job. I also see abit of blending with the background at times- as suggest, perhaps a lighter background might help?!